Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurates India’s first 'SkyCast' System at IGI Airport New Delhi; says India enters a new era of fog-free, weather-smart aviation

• SkyCast is India's first integrated aviation weather intelligence system providing real-time fog, turbulence, visibility and atmospheric data to pilots at IGI Airport, New Delhi.
• Inaugurated by Union Minister of State (I/C) Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh on 29 May 2026; makes India the 19th country globally to deploy such a system.
• Developed under Mission Mausam (Ministry of Earth Sciences); leverages indigenous R&D from IITM/IMD's Winter Fog Experiment (WiFEX) running at IGI since 2015.
• Relevant for UPSC themes of S&T, disaster mitigation (fog-related accidents), and India's climate-services architecture.